Fifteen formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded liver tissues deriving from two normal, one HBV carrier, three chronic hepatitis B, three chronic hepatitis C, three cirrhosis and three HCC cases were obtained from the Department of Pathology of Gulhane Military Medical Academy in Ankara, Turkey, upon the favourable decision of ethics committee of Gulhane Military Medical Academy.
The JAAM DIC Study Group was apprehensive about the decision of the ethics committees of the participating hospitals; therefore, the use of gabexate mesilate was permitted when the ethics committees required some interventions for the control group.
Not only must the decision of the ethics committee be published, but Mr Garcia's bill of indictment too, so it becomes clear what the charges were and how they were judged," he told the German website kicker.de.
"How can anyone have confidence in the decision of the ethics subcommittee when I was deprived of due process rights, right to counsel and was not even in the room?" the statement read.
Q: Are you happy with the decision of the ethics committee?
The sample size (n = 6) per group was determined depending on the decision of the ethics committee.
The discontinuance criterion of this clinical trial as followings: 1) the trial appears causing unexpected harm or severe adverse events to participants, or the evidence that the risks outweigh the benefits, with the discontinuance decision of the ethics committees.
Informed consent from all patients was obtained according to the Declaration of Helsinki, and the studies were approved by decisions of the local ethics committee of Bern, Switzerland.
The questions for this section used open-ended questions such as " Are there penalties for non-compliance with the regulations or decisions of the national ethics committee?" and " If so, what are the penalties?" which allowed survey respondents to provide specific details of their respective country contexts.
